Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, though, the trip-as intended-was low-key and at times downright dull. Just as, it was noted, only a dish of spaghetti excites a Roman, it takes a good deal to turn the attention of other Europeans from their coq au vin, fish and chips or sauerbraten to any display of public fervor. It was therefore predictable that Richard Nixon's earnest pilgrimage stirred less excitement last week than the triumphant passages of his more glamorous predecessors, Eisenhower and Kennedy -or even than the European hegira early last month of Astronaut Frank Borman, fresh from orbiting...
...teen-agers have taken to drugs and gone on sprees of vandalism. Residents of new towns outside of Stockholm refer to them as "sleeping cemeteries." Though Britons find that the new towns give them a greater sense of community, some inhabitants complain that living in them is often dull. Nonetheless, a well-planned new town seems infinitely preferable to the typical American "slurb," with its dreary tracts, its jumbled community facilities and its tangle of roadways...
MEANWHILE, back on the road. Towards the middle of July the full realization of what we had committed ourselves, to physically and psychologically, came thudding home with the dull throbbing quality of an empty stomach. Literally. While in Cambridge we had allotted ourselves $1.50 a day for food, drink, and bed. This was under the assumption either that things would improve as we raised more money or that it might be possible to hustle food from unsuspecting friends. Both of these assumptions proved false and nearly fatal...
Much of Nixon's new humor consists of pleasant jocularity that lightens what might otherwise be a dull or pompous occasion. Shortly after he took the oath, for instance, he noted that his favorite tune was Hail to the Chief. He had never, he added, had better seats for a parade than at the Inaugural march. "Of course, I sent for my seats eight years ago." When he was about to return to the Executive Mansion for his first night in residence, he concluded: "They've given me the key to the White House, and I have...
Sylvia, the office supervisor, and Paul, the new employee, are on stage. In terms of action they enter and reenter, eat lunch, and wait to leave at five. Absolutely dull human beings. Except that they live and think just like all of us, so we have to be interested. We cannot term ourselves excruciatingly dasman...